Beacon
About

Beacon

Sri Lanka's first AI-powered political intelligence platform, built to promote transparency and accountability in governance.

Mission

Why We Exist

In a political landscape where promises are made and forgotten, Beacon uses artificial intelligence to track what politicians say, when they say it, and whether their actions match their words. We believe informed citizens make better decisions.

By combining advanced language AI with comprehensive news monitoring, we provide an objective, data-driven view of Sri Lankan politics — available to journalists, researchers, advocacy groups, and every citizen.

Capabilities

What We Do

01

24/7 Monitoring

8+ news sources scanned continuously across Sinhala, Tamil, and English — Ada Derana, Daily Mirror, Economy Next, and more.

02

AI Analysis

Every article is categorized into 14 political topics, sentiment-analyzed, and summarized using Claude AI.

03

Contradiction Detection

AI compares new statements against a politician's full history using vector similarity + Claude verification to expose flip-flops.

04

Parliamentary Data

Full Hansard activity records for all 225 MPs from Manthri.lk — attendance, speeches, topic participation, and rankings.

05

Video Analysis

Political speeches analyzed for transcript, body language signals, and credibility scoring using Gemini.

06

Policy Research

Verite Research reports and publications indexed and searchable alongside news coverage.

Products

Two Products, One Platform

Public

BeaconLK

The free accountability platform. Browse contradictions, track politicians, and stay informed. Available to all Sri Lankans.

Professional

Beacon Pro

The B2B intelligence dashboard for PR agencies, political parties, and media houses. Deep analytics, custom feeds, and content generation.

Technology

How It Works

Built on Anthropic's Claude for text analysis, Google Gemini for video processing, and OpenAI embeddings for semantic search. Contradiction detection uses a two-stage pipeline: vector similarity filtering followed by AI verification with context-aware scoring.

Claude AIGemini 2.5 FlashOpenAI EmbeddingsSupabase / pgvectorNext.js 15Python 3.13
Data Sources

Sources

Ada Derana
Daily Mirror
The Morning
Economy Next
Colombo Page
Financial Times LK
The Island
NewsFirst
Manthri.lk
Verite Research
Parliament.lk